Anyone Out There

So it has been some time since I last posted an entry and my question is, is anyone even out there watching or reading my posts here? I will keep making and updating this blog, but not as often as I had planned, that is until I know people are actually reading the posts when I actually do post them. :)

So, what are people's thoughts on the upcoming patch? I know I am going to like that we can organize our characters on the character screen. I like to have all my characters in a row according to their levels from top to bottom so it will really be nice to be able to do this.

The thing I do not like is that we are now going to have to do rated battle grounds to get conquest points. I LOVE doing arena's but I hate rated bg's so this is going to be stupid as hell. Why can't blizzard stop messing with things that are not broken? Why? I ask you. It is stupid.

Anyway, just a short blog post today. I will try to keep this updated more often from now on, but do not hold your breath.

Battle Grounds

Ok, so as most of you all know. I am a PVP fan. HUGE, I would love to see world PVP returned as it once was in Vanilla WoW, but I do not see that happening any time soon, sadly.

So, today I would like to talk a little bit about battlegrounds. The ups, the downs, 4.1 changes, and so on.

1. Arathi Basin Changes: I noticed that both graveyards have been moved slightly. What is the reason for this change? If anyone has any idea what Blizzard was thinking to gain with this, let me know. Now, if I am killed in my flag room, I have to jump off the hill, and run up the tunnel to get back in. Not sure why they did this but it is an annoyance.

2. Que Times: Since patch 4.1 went live. Battle Ground Que times, or the whole bg LFG system for this matter, seems to have been broken. Seems to be worse for lower levels right now. What I mean is. When I am on my level 24 rogue, the one I am leveling through bg's only, is having real bad issues.

    a) I am in Que for 20 min, I then leave que and start all over just to wait another 20-30 min. This would not be a big problem if I was questing as well, but since I have decided to level in bg's only, sitting in SW doing nothing for over an hour is not acceptable.

    b) When the bg finally does pop up and I hit except. I have to hit it 3 million times for it to stick and let me in. And sometimes the icon to click enter goes away and I can not enter. I then lose 30+ min of wait time and have to start all over.  Blizzard screwed something up on this patch and I am not happy about this.

3. When Blizzard nerfs or boosts classes, it effects pvp more then it does pve. If a class is OP in PVE I do not see that being an issue as it effects no one on a bad way, if anything, it helps your team finish your goal faster, but when Blizzard boosts a class for a pve situation, it screws up the pvp side and makes a class a little more OP and, in many cases, unfair.

     Also, on this same note, whenever a class is boosted, you see more of that class in a bg then any other class. It is pretty sad that people have to be like pawns and create a class just because they can kick more ass in a bg. It just tells me that these people have a hard time on their other classes and just want to look and act bad ass in a bg. It is sad.

Ok, that is about all I wanted to talk about today so come back soon as I am going to talk about other things later.

-Smirv

Shaman

Well, I did it, I got a 3rd character to level 85. With all the alts and characters I have, I doubt I will do anything to gear them up. I will be working on my Warrior next. He currently sits at level 47 so it will be a while till he is 85. Might tinker on the mage who is level 81, but not really having too much fun on it. Not sure why, she used to be my favorite. Oh well, the druid took her place as my favorite.

On to the Shaman. I am thinking about changing his race to Dwarf as I really never liked the Alien Goats, but at the time of switching him from Horde to Alliance, they were the only race with shaman class. Now that Dwarf has it, I think I will pay to change him to Dwarf.

Anyway, The shaman will not be doing as much PVP as my druid. He will be more of a gold farmer/ profession assistance. Also, I may just do some instances with him from time to time. I am Elemental spec right now and plan to stay that way, just need to refine the points to make him a little better. I kind of just threw the points in while I was leveling.

Anyway, I am working on a video with some footage of him dinging 85 so be looking for that.

:) anyway, that is the update, hope you all enjoyed reading.

-Smirv

Time Lost Proto Drake

So here I am , it is 4:30am and I am about to go to bed. (I know up that late?) I actually log off my account, and get up from my chair. Then I think. I wonder if the Time Lost Drake is making his rounds. So I log back in and go from dragonblight, I was questing there for the loremaster title, and head up to one of TLPD's spawn point. My Silverdragon addon starts going nuts and in the distance I see her. The rare I have been looking for. She was actually right where she spawns so I can only assume she had just appeared.

Well, I waist no time. I did not want to see someone else jump in and tag her so I get to the ledge she is near and start spamming moonfire. She drops to the ground and I loot her, and there it is, the drake I have been wanting for a long time, in my bags. I learn it and then mount up.

What a sweet mount it is. I think I will be using this mount for a long time to come. Hope you all like the vidoe.

Achievements

I have been doing a lot of thinking and I have decided, for now anyway, it may change later. But I think I am going to be doing some how to's on achievements for a while. I have been thinking about it and I want to get my druid some achievements and since I make videos, why not just use that platform to help others who may not know how to do it.

I will, of course, be skipping the easy ones such as level's, exploring, and others that just come naturally in most cases. What I am talking about are ones that are a little harder to get, hidden ones, and ones that take more effort to obtain. So be looking for the videos soon. :) Here are some screenshots of achievements I already have...

Some Screenshots For You All

 

A Couple of Achievements in one. :)

World Wide Winner

City Defender

I was Thrilled to get this one

Double Rainbow

An Old School Screenshot

Yeah, can not do this anymore

Hitting Level Cap In Cataclysm

Well that is all I am going to post for now of the screenshots. I will do some more later on, if you are interested in seeing some more that is. I have many many screenshots. I really like the autoscreenshotter addon it is pretty nice. 

Oh and here is the newest video just in case you missed it...

Now I Am Mad

This new patch has me angry. Blizzard decided they had to fuck with the druids when they were just fine. As you now. I am a resto druid, but all specs got jacked. My biggest complaint is the Glyph of Entangling Roots. Ok, I can understand how people will say that it was op when it was an instant cast. This I can see. But to nerf it to where it makes the spell .02 seconds faster cast time is a joke. That glyph is now useless. Really? .02 seconds. 2 tenths of a second? Time to reglyph.

Also, making it to where druids can no longer shapeshift out of a snare is stupid. That is what made druids unique. Bitch all you want about them being OP, but come on now, blizzard is taking everything from the druid that makes a druid, well, a druid. Mages can still blink out of snares, so why take away the druids ability to do it? I am going to be leveling alts to 85 for now. My druid will be on hold. My druid is almost useless as a healer in arena's so what is the point in doing that as well.

I need to light up the forums with hate and anger. I know it will not do any good, but I need to vent. lol. I just really really hate what blizzard did to the druids. REALLY hate it. At least I have alts I can level. So yeah, again, the druid will not be played much until blizzard opens their eyes. It was one thing to take away the ability to mount up when in moonkin form, (no reason given for that BTW, so that is a pointless thing) but now take away things that help us survive. Healers already have troubles in pvp situations and now blizzard just made it worse for druids, IMO. I guess there will be less and less healers in bg's now that the patch is live.

Ok, I am done ranting. Just had to get that out there and off my chest.